Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rest & Recuperation. According to the French, Bourguiba not only permits the F.L.N. to raid Algeria from Tunisian bases, but also lets the rebels maintain five hospitals, five arms depots and a network of training camps in such towns as Béja, Gafsa and Souk-el-Arba. All F.L.N. recruits, declare the French, are sent to Tunisia for two months' basic training; currently French intelligence estimates the number of F.L.N. troops in Tunisia at from...
...woman friend whom she had just betrayed. The Cat continued her broadcasts to London and because of phony messages sent in her name, the British failed to trap the warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen; and it was she who informed the Nazis of the approaching British Commando raid on St. Nazaire. Out of a total British raiding force of 353. no less than 212 were killed or missing...
...letter from a Mr. Marlowe [Jan. 13] refers to the "peaceful dignity" and "serene beauty" found in the Lutheran and Episcopal churches. If dignity is found in plate-glass windows, why aren't the Protestants holding services in greenhouses? If "serene beauty" means blank walls, there are air-raid shelters. Granted we Catholics occasionally lapse into the tranquilized interiors of modern-style architecture, but when we do, it is only to share the blame Mr. Marlowe claims other religions have total right...
Died. John Anderson, 75, 1st Viscount Waverley of Westdean, stiff-necked first Home Secretary in Winston Churchill's wartime Cabinet, after whom Britons named their tiny, corrugated-iron, backyard air-raid shelters ("Anderson Shelters"), later (1943-45) Chancellor of the Exchequer, who represented Britain at the 1944 Bretton Woods monetary conference; of bronchial pneumonia; in London...
...Originally called by the code name "Window," it was first used by the British in a big raid on Hamburg, July 24, 1943, when it completely confused the Germans' radars and paralyzed their air defense...